Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) has appointed Roy Herbst as the center’s sixth director. Herbst will lead integrated efforts to help strengthen cancer research, education, and collaboration across Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health. Interim DCC Director Konstantin Dragnev was also recognized for his dedicated and thoughtful leadership during the transition.
The Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the 2026 Match Day, a pivotal event when graduating medical students learn their residency placements.
For her work investigating meiotic cell cycle regulation and chromosome segregation in budding yeast and mouse oogenesis, Soni Lacefield, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel of Medicine, has received the Genetics Society of America’s Ira Herskowitz Award.
“One of the most important updates we’ve made to the existing Patients and Populations course is a shift to a longitudinal research and health sciences curriculum connecting across all four years of medical school,” says Julie Taylor, MD, MSc, associate dean for medical education, and interim chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine.
Every year on the third Friday of March, medical schools celebrate one of the most pivotal and exciting days of their academic year. Known as Match Day, it is the moment when graduating medical students across the U.S. simultaneously learn where they will train for their residency programs and the […]
Results from a Geisel School of Medicine study investigating whether following a planetary health style diet during pregnancy affects preterm birth and babies’ size at birth are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet during Pregnancy and Associations with Preterm Birth and Infant Size: a prospective analysis from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort.”
The Geisel School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (DICE) has been awarded a one-year grant to support the Alliance for Scholarship, Collaboration, Engagement, Networking, and Development (ASCEND), from Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, a pioneer in scientific breakthroughs dedicated to improving people’s lives.
February’s Medical Student Grand Rounds at DHMC featured two Geisel School of Medicine students who shared their research on improving patient outcomes through evidence-based quality improvement and a feasibility study of AI-powered at-home smartphone-based ovulation prediction.
Congratulations to the MD Class of ’28! On February 13, the Geisel School of Medicine held its annual Transition Ceremony for the Class of ’28 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The ceremony marks major milestone in medical education: the transition of second-year medical students from the pre-clinical to clinical curriculum.
January’s Medical Student Grand Rounds at DHMC, featured four Geisel School of Medicine students who shared a systematic review to determine whether hyperosmolar therapy targeting a specific serum sodium level improves neurological outcomes, examined whether elevated FGF23 is associated with changes in bone structure and function following kidney injury, and tested parameters of nanoscale architecture leading to the development of antifibrotic glaucoma drainage implants to reduce post operative fibrosis.
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